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Julie Hesmondhalgh
ActorBorn February 25, 1970 (55 years)
Julie was born in Accrington, Lancashire in February 1970. A woman with a strong social conscience, she originally wanted to be a social worker. She was an amateur actress with the Oswaldtwistle Players and studied A-level Theatre Studies at Accrington and Rossendale College. Fate took a turn when she took an audition for drama school to be with her friends. It landed her a place at LAMDA, where she studied from 1988-1991. After graduating she set up her own theatre company, Arts Threshold, with a group of friends in Paddington, taking time out for TV roles in The Bill, the Catherine Cookson drama The Dwelling Place, a care home worker in Victoria Wood's comedy film Pat and Margaret and, just prior to Coronation Street, as an animal rights protestor in Dalziel & Pascoe. She was spotted by the casting crew for "Coronation Street" whilst playing in "Much Ado About Nothing" in the Royal Exchange theatre in Manchester, playing the dual roles of a maid and a night watchman!
Julie Hesmondhalgh Filmography
| 2024 | Mr Bates vs The Post Office (TV Series) · as Suzanne Sercombe |
| 2023 | You & Me (2023) (TV Series) · as Linda |
| 2021 | The Pact (2021) (TV Series) · as Nancy |
| 2020 | Coronation Street: Compilations (TV Series) · as Hayley Cropper |
| 2020 | Alma's Not Normal (TV Series) · as Aunty Ange |
| 2020 | The Trouble with Maggie Cole (TV Series) · as Jill Wheadon |
| 2018 | Pond Life · as Muirel Panks |
| 2018 | Peterloo · as Female Reformer |
| 2016 | Boys on Film 15: Time & Tied · as Penny (segment "closets") |
| 2016 | The A Word (TV Series) · as Heather |
| 2015 | Closets · as Penny |
| 2015 | Banana (TV Series) · as Cleo Whitaker |
| 2015 | Cucumber (TV Series) · as Cleo Whitaker |
| 2015 | Tofu (TV Series) · as Cleo |
| 2015 | Catastrophe (2015) (TV Series) · as Amanda |
| 2014 | Happy Valley (TV Series) · as Amanda Wadsworth |
| 2014 | Inside No. 9 (TV Series) · as Kath |
| 2013 | Broadchurch (TV Series) · as Trish Winterman |
| 2010 | Coronation Street: Tram Crash · as Hayley Cropper |
| 2009 | Coronation Street: Romanian Holiday · as Hayley Cropper |
| 2009 | Jimmy McGovern's Moving On (TV Series) · as Linda |
| 2009 | Harry Hill's TV Burp Gold 2: Unseen TV Burp · as Hayley Cropper |
| 2005 | Doctor Who (2005) (TV Series) · as Judy Maddox |
| 2001 | Harry Hill's TV Burp (TV Series) |
| 1996 | Dalziel and Pascoe (TV Series) |
| 1994 | Pat and Margaret · as Helper In Old Age Home |
| 1994 | The Dwelling Place (TV Series) · as Rose Turnbull |
| 1985 | Screen One (TV Series) · as Helper In Old Age Home |
| 1984 | The Bill (TV Series) · as Doctor |
| 1960 | Coronation Street (TV Series) · as Hayley Patterson / Hayley Cropper |
| 2021 | The Weakest Link (2021) (TV Series) · as Self - Voiceover |
| 2021 | Alan Titchmarsh: Spring Into Summer (TV Series) · as Self |
| 2020 | |
| 2019 | Coronation Street Icons (TV Series) · as Self |
| 2019 | Kirstie's Celebrity Craft Masters (TV Series) · as Self - Additional Narration |
| 2018 | Jeremy Vine (TV Series) · as Self - Actor |
| 2017 | James Martin's Saturday Morning (TV Series) · as Self |
| 2017 | The Acting Class · as Self |
| 2014 | Our Gay Wedding: The Musical · as Self |
| 2009 | |
| 2009 | The Cube (TV Series) · as Self |
| 2008 | All Star Mr & Mrs (TV Series) · as Self |
| 2007 | Would I Lie to You? (TV Series) · as Self - Panellist |
| 2006 | The ONE Show (TV Series) · as Self - Guest |
| 2004 | The Xtra Factor (TV Series) · as Self |
| 2004 | The Best of 'So Graham Norton' · as Self |
| 2001 | Lorraine (TV Series) · as Self - Guest |
| 2000 | BBC Breakfast (TV Series) · as Self |
| 1999 | Loose Women (TV Series) · as Self |
| 1998 | ARTE Journal Clips (TV Series) · as Self |
| 1998 | Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? (TV Series) · as Self - Contestant |
| 1998 | So Graham Norton (TV Series) · as Self |
| 1995 | The Frank Skinner Show (TV Series) · as Self |
| 1993 | GMTV (TV Series) · as Self |
| 1990 | Stars in Their Eyes (TV Series) · as Self - Audience Member |
| 1988 | This Morning (TV Series) · as Self |
| 1982 | Channel 4 News (TV Series) · as Self |
| 1955 | This is Your Life (UK) (TV Series) · as Self |










